Team

Joanne Hahnel

Founder and Director

Joanne is Founder and Director of Stone Financial Services and a CPA with over 30 years in public practice. With extensive experience in business services and planning, taxation, superannuation, self-managed superannuation, estate and succession planning, and individual taxation, Jo’s focus is to provide clients with pain-free accounting and business solutions that improve their businesses and change their lives through cloud accounting.

Athena Ahles

Assistant Accountant

With more than 16 years’ experience in accounting and bookkeeping, Athena has been with the firm since 2008. She is a Xero Certified Adviser and a Reckon One Cloud Advisor and has strong technical skills in bookkeeping, personal taxation, business taxation and corporate compliance.

Russell Collins

Senior Accountant

Russell joined the firm in 1988 and has over 35 years’ experience in commercial and personal taxation. He specialises in personal, business and company taxation and superannuation.

Elijah Koullapis

Assistant Accountant

Elijah joined Stone Financial Services in 2012, having previously worked in personal taxation and commercial accounting for more than nine years. He has extensive experience in personal and company taxation, bookkeeping and self-managed superannuation. Elijah is a Xero Certified Adviser.

Janine Wilson

Receptionist & Bookkeeper

Janine joined Stone Financial Services in 2013 as our receptionist and bookkeeper. She is also a Xero Certified Adviser.

Sally-Ann Quilliam

Bookkeeper

Sally-Ann is one of the more recent staff to join Stone Financial Services and has a strong accounting and bookkeeping background in a diverse range of industries. She has more than 20 years’ experience in bookkeeping and payroll and around 10 in personal taxation preparation. Sally is a Xero Certified Adviser.

Emma Hahnel

Administration

Emma is our part-time receptionist and social media guru and is studying Science at the University of Melbourne.